Re: Exim permissions

[Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:57:39PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Pigeon writes:
> > To force delivery of email to remote addresses, it seems that I have to
> > pon and then exim -qf. For exim -qf, I have to be root. I'd rather not
> > have to.
> 
> You shouldn't have to.  Exim should have installed /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim,
> containing:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # Flush exim queue
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then
>         /usr/sbin/exim -qf
> fi

Hmpf! It did 'n all. So this should be run automatically when I pon.
Is there a time delay involved? Not knowing that this script had been
installed, I've been running exim -qf manually immediately after I
pon. So maybe I just haven't been giving it a chance.

Thanks,
Pigeon